Executive order to lower interest rates.

I think Trump thinks lowering interest rates alone will make him much more popular. Bessent is trying to get in front of the issue.

Third Amendment lawsuit at long last

Hey, when the National Guard stops picking up trash they can, apparently, pick up a hammer.

Probably want to use it to waive the Endangered Species Act and environmental laws.

"Deport construction workers, and then use the army, a definitely more cost effective way to build houses."

"Regime" people, perhaps?

It'll be solved by ICE rounding up immigrants, the solution to every problem

Yes, build them to replace all that housing that we keep losing in Florida every time a hurricane hits. Another hurricane wipes your new house out? No problem! We have an endless supply of free money to help rebuild!

Private equity will just buy them as well.

Is he going to use forced labor from all the people he has kidnapped?

The possibilities are endless(ly grim)

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He’s gonna to nationalize Habitat for Humanity via executive fiat.

haha. "emergency" regulatory & interest rate cuts timed to coincide with the fannie and freddie ipo. trump and ackman take "victory laps" as they inflate the next asset bubble

oh, and something near and dear to trump's heart, suspending any remaining federal civil rights enforcement in housing.

plus the usual blah blah blah about cutting down more trees and selling off federal lands to developers. stuff that's hard to actually do when you've destroyed agency capacity & markets aren't interested

Probs push for lower interest rates and do things that help investment capital and builders construct/acquire more with few protections on pricing/accessibility/profiteering and slash regs that protect communities but restrict construction…

Trump take home equity

Always wanted a Quonset Hut.

It could actually be upsetting for elections if this fucker gets the Army Corps of Engineers to YIMBY a bunch of new affordable housing, but realistically, we *are* still waiting for Infrastructure Week.

And there’s no conceivable way they put the New Trump Neighborhoods anywhere that makes any sense at all. They have a child’s view of American geography, heh.

They'll put them in white rural areas that don't need them

Right yeah. Like the exurbs of Dallas or something.

This whole proposition just breaks my brain. It would require giving money to a) blue cities and b) blue states, which he has no interest in doing. They won't want to put neighborhoods anywhere that will inconvenience rich assholes. So yeah, get ready for sprawl.

Building a bunch of housing in like San Fran just to piss off the nimby lib crowd is the sort of thing where his spite motivation could actually help him, but I assume he’d try to build in places nobody actually wants to fucking live instead.

Actually though this is probably “housing emergency, gotta kick out the ‘illegals’ to free up places to live for Real Americans”

Whatever it is there will be a massive grift in there… it’s always about the $ but I do wonder if Bessent just makes shit up

This is about interest rates.

Get angry because now that he's declared the problem solved, people are acting like it still isn't solved

and they tariffed lumber!

Easy, they’ll just make it legal to clearcut our national forests.

look North Korea does a lot of a things, maybe they are on to something here

Is it bad that I think having the army build houses would be good?

Have army build houses using highly tariffed lumber

this is how he's going to try to take over interest rates

Well he could start by dropping his tariffs on lumber, which as it turns out is a pretty key ingredient in house building.

I suspect either another pretext for trying to deport people or an extremely hamfisted “turn national parks into golf courses” neither of which will actually be implemented in a meaningful way

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